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Mail is *much* better. I don't have news reader.


On 11/30/04 10:34 AM, "Jan van Oosterwijk" <[log in to unmask]>
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> At 08:14 30-11-2004 -0800, R E M wrote:
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>> On Nov 29, 2004, at 11:23 PM, Jean-Baptiste FAURE wrote:
>>
>>   [exactly the same posting as also made to comp.lang.fortran]
>>
>> Those interested might want to see the several replies already on
>> comp.lang.fortran instead of repeating the identical discussion here.
>
> In fact, I prefer Mail over News :-() , were it only because of the number of
> trolls and off-topic posts on c.l.f. :-(
>
>> (I find it confusing when people post the same question to both forums.
>> Besides the tendency towards duplicate work on answers, it becomes
>> difficult to keep track of what was said where so that followups can
>> stay in the right context for people that read only one of them. This
>> makes it more than twice the work. It also tends to make me decide to
>> ignore the thread on both forums.)
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